Composing-machine.



No. 828,451. PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906. J. S. BANGROFT & M. G. INDAHL.

GOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28.1905.

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m f .1 flllil No. 828,451. v PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906.

J. s. BANGROPT & M.-G. INDAHL.

.oomrosme MACHINE.

APILIOATIQN FILED JUNE 28.1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JOHN SELLERS BANOROFT AND MAURITZ C. INDAHL, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO LANSTON MONO-TYPE MACHINE COM PANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF VIR- v GINIA.

OOMPOISING-MACHIINE.

Application filed June 28,1905. Serial No. 267,354.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN SELLERS BAN- CROFT and MAURITZ G. INDAHL, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadelphia,

in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Composing Machines and we do hereby declare the following.

to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin s, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in I5that class of composing-machines in which the unit values of the type-signals as produced are registered on a linemeasuring mechanism through the medium of admeas uring devices, such as stop-bars, coupled with certain movable numbers of the signalproducing devices, such as the punch-actuating members.

As heretofore generally constructed and used, these machines are equipped with a plurality of punches divided into two or more groups, of which the members of two such groups designate different positions or degrees of motion on transverse lines representing column and line. The matrices comprising each column represent type of two or more contiguous columns whose designating-punches arecoupled with the same admeasuring device. The proportion be- 5 tween the number of characters and widths is not, however, a constant, but varies with different arrangements, fonts, and lay-outs. Hence a composing-machine adjusted for one arrangement of matrieesis incompetent to deal with'another employing a different allocation of units unless and until it has "been taken apart and altered to accord with the new scheme of distribution.

Now this invention has for its principal object to so enlar e the capacity ofthe composing-machine t at it can be almost instantly adapted for use in connection with any desired system or plan of distribution of units, to which end it consists in supplying it with detachable and interchan eable coupling units for connecting up the d imensioning and registering mechanisms according to any predetermined plan. It also comprises and includes minor features of construction and arran ements of parts, as hereinafter described the novel features being pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a preferred form of embodiment,- Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion-of a composing machine of well-known construction, showing one manner of applyin the improvements thereto. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly in section, of the coupling unit as applied to the stop-bar levers and punch-bars. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the stop-bar housing and lever-frame, showing the manner of attachment to the main frame, the latter indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a rear view of the coupling unit.. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a single connector. Fig. 7 is PatentedAng14,1906.

a perspective view of a multiple connector.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the front guide or housing for the stop-bars. Fig. .9 is a detail showlng the manner of adjusting and supporting said stop-bar housing.

Corresponding numerals designate like parts in the several figures. p

With the exceptions hereinafter noted the composing-machine illustrated is that of application Serial No. 179,049, filed Octoberj29, 1903, by John Sellers Bancroft, and for purposes of identification it will suflice to designate some of the principal elements shown, such as the series of valved finger-pieces 1,

pressure-chamber 2, punch-levers 3, punchlever cylinders 4, punchbars 5, rocking frame 6, overlying the punch-levers and connected with the paper-feed, (not shown unitswheel 7, controlling the line-measuring devices, units-rack 8, units-rack carrier 9, and series of stop-bars 10 for admeasuring the advance movements of the units-rack when in engagement with the units-wheel.

A change has been made in the stop-bars and their supporting and actuating devices to adapt them to receive'the new coupling unit. Instead of entering'the path of the units-rack on the upward movement the stop-bars enter on thedownward motion.

Hence they are .cut away or notched, as at 11, for the passage of the units-rack and provided which the series of stop-bars is fitted, and lateral extensions 16, fitted to guides on the units-'rack-carrier frame. A spring 17 operates to hold the uide-plate 14 against a screw 18, whereby t e series of stop-bars may be adjusted to position with relation to the units-rack, as before. Each of the stop-bars is pivotally connected to one of a series of levers l9, fulcrumed upon a rod 20,.carried by a frame 21, detachably secured beneath the frame 22 of the line-measuring mechanism in the open space in the main frame, as ndicated in Fig. 3.

- To afford a wider and more secure support, a cross-bar 23 with its ends resting in bearings formed in the main frame is bolted to the rear portion of frame 21, the latter being also bolted to the under side of frame 22, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The arrangement is such that the stop-bars, housing, and levers I may readily besubstituted for thestop-bars an actuating devices of the prior machines.

As the first of the series of stop-bars 10 or that pertaining to the justification-space and the punch-bar 5 for that signal are constants, the first lever 19 is connected directly with its punch-bar, as heretofore, while the other levers 19 are received and guided between plates 24, carried by frame 21, their rear ends being formed or adapted to become members of separable connections for receiving the transmitting members of the coupling unit.

In the preferred form illustrated the coupling unit comprises a frame" or casing 25, open at the rear and carrying a series of transmitting members or bars 26 27 for coupling the punch-bars 5 and levers 19, as will be ex plained. At its lower end this frame 25 fits between the vertical faces of the rear extensionof frame 21 and is shouldered, as at 28, to take a bearing upon the upper edges of said rear extensions. It is also provided with a series of spaced guide-plates 29, correspond ing in position with the plates 24 for levers 19' and serving as guides for the lower ends of the transmitting-bars 26 27, whose upper ends are guided in slots 30 in a cross-piece 31,

the latter provided with one or more, preferably a series, of beveled projections 32, adapted to enter between the punch-bars,

and thus assist in positioning the frame and transmitting-bars so as to bring and maintain the latter in alinement with the corre- I sponding punch-bars.

26, is for single transmission and the other,

27, for multiple transmission, the essential distinction between the two relating to the form and dimension of the offset 34.

When all the type ofa given width are contained in any one column of the die-case, it is only re uired that the punch-bar 5 pertaining to t at column should be coupled with that oneofthe series of stop-bars 10 corresponding therewith in value. For this purpose a transmitter-bar 26 is employed to connect the column-designating punch-bar 5 with the lever 19, controlling the desired stopbar, the offset 34 fitting the notch 35, so that the stop-bar and connections will follow the punch-bar, thereby obviating the necessity of provid in other means, such as springs, for

returnin t e stop-bars to normal position, as woul be the case if one-way connectlons were made between the transmitter-bars and the punch-bars or levers .19; but when two or more columns of the diecase are devoted totype of the same width and it is required that the several punch-bars designating such columns should be put in control of a single stop bar representing the assigned dimension the coupling unit is equipped with one or inore transmitting-bars 27 whose offset 34 is expanded laterally to cover and engage the several column-designating punch-bars. In this" case the offset is made narrower than .the recess or notch in a direction longitudi-' nally of the punch-bars, so that the latter may be separately operated, and additional means, such as springs 36, are employed to insure the return of the parts to normal position when the punch-bar is retracted.

In practice the composingmachine is e uipped with eighteen one-unit stop-bars, of which the first or justification-space stop-bar is located. four units distant from the unitsrack, and with fifteen column-designating punchbars,-of.which the latter right hand or fifteenth may or may not be provided with a punch. The coupling unit shown is provided w'ith transmitter-bars adapted to connect the first column designating punchbar with the first or five-unit stop-bar, the second with the six-unit, the third with the v seven-unit, the fourth with the eight-unit,

the fifth, sixth, and seventh with the nine-unit the eighth and ninth with the ten-unit, the tenth with the eleven-unit, the eleventh with the twelve-unit, the twelfth with the thirteenunit, the thirteenth with the fourteen-unit, the fourteenth with the fifteen-unit, and the fifteenth with the eighteen-unit.

It is obvious that it should be desired to chan e the allocation of units it could be accompished by removing the coupling unit and inserting another properly equippe with transmitting-bars to effect the desired connections between the punch-bars and stopbars either singly or in muniple, as required.

The coupling unit may be retained in operative position by a detachable latch''-such, for example, as the spring 37, secured to the frame and carryin a pin on its free end engaging a socket in frame 25, as seen in Fi 2. When it is desiredto remove the coup ing unit, the latch is withdrawn and the upper end of frame 25 tilted forward until the connections at opposite ends of the transmitterbars are separated, when the entire coupling mechanism can be lifted out without further manipulation or interference with the remainder of the machine.

It is obvious that by making the crosspiece 30, containing the uides for the upper ends of the transmittingars, removable and providing substitutes therefor eguipped to accommodate different sizesan dispositions of multiple transmitting-bars 27 a single frame 25 might serve for different lay-outs; but as this would involve delay and afford opportunity'for errors it is preferred to provide separate coupling units for each layout and to mark thereon the allocation of units. This can be conveniently done by securing a reg istering-plate 38 to the frame, as indicated in Fig. 5. The offsetting or bending of the transmitting-bars 26 27, as shown, is merely for purposes of accommodation, due to the fact that the stop-bar levers are brought together in a narrower compass than their actuating punch-bars.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A composin -machine such as described providedwith a etachable coupling unit for separably connecting a plurality of designating and admeasuring members.

2. A detachable coupling unit for connecting the signal-producing andlineqneasuring mechanisms of a composing-machine such as described, the same including a plurality of transmitting members mounted in a frame and each provided with separable connections for engaging corresponding members of the signal-producing and line-measuring mechanisms.

' drawal and insertion of sai 3. In a composing-machine such as described provided with a plurality of designating members and a series of admeasuring devices and in combination therewith a detachable coupling unit provided with a plurality of transmitting members each separably connected to and interposed between one or more designating members and an admeasuring device.

4. In a composing-machine such as described, the combination with a plurality of designating punch-bars and a series ofstopbars permanently mounted upon the frame, of a detachable and removable coupling unit provided with a plurality of transmitting members for the punch-bars and stop-bars separably connected therewith, to permit the insertion of interchangeable units.

5. In a composing-machine such as described, the combination with a plurality of designating members and a series of admeasuring stop-bars of a removable coupling unit comprisin a frame and a series of transmitting mem ers, each of the latter connected with a stop-bar and one or more designating members in a manner to (permit the withcoupling unit.

, 6. In a composing-machine such as described, the combination with the series of designating punch-bars, the series of stopbars and the actuating-levers for the latter, of the series of transmitting-bars each coupled with one of said actuating-levers by a separable connection, and with one or more of the punch-bars.

7. In a composing-machine such as described the combination with the units-rackcarrier frame provided with a guide-surface and "bearings, of the series of stop-bars supported between gages in a housing forming the front guide therefor, with guiding extensions engaging the bearings on the carrierframe.

8. In a com osing-machine such as described the com ination with the line-measuring devices including a series of stop-bars, of the series of actuating-levers engaging said stop-bars and supported in a frame detachably secured to the frame of the linemeasuring devices.

9. In a composing-machine such as described provided with signal-producing and line-measuring mechanisms including a series of stop-bars and in combination therewith an actuating attachment for said stopbars including a series of levers supported in scribed provided with a plurality of designat ing members or punch-bars and measuring devices including a series of stop-bars and in combination therewith a series of stop-baractuating levers, a detachable coupling unit IIC provided with transmitting-bars for engagl unit comprising a frame carrying a series of ing some or all of said levers, and means for i gaging the position of said coupling unit, 'to insure the engagement of the transmittin bars and stop-bar levers. v

11. In a coiuprising-machine such as described provided with a plurality of designating members or punch-bars and measuring devices including a series of stop-bars and actuating-levers therefor, and in combination therewithca detachable coupling unit provided with a plurality of transmitting elements located in predetermined relation and each provided with an open bearing to the stop-bar-actuating levers provided with guiding-surfaces, of a coupling unit carrying a plurality of transmitting members for engaging said levers and adapted to 006 crate with the guiding-surfaces on the leverame, as and for the purpose specified.

13. In a composinganachine such as described, provided with a plurality of punchbars and a measuring mechanism including transmitting elements and provided with bearings engaging the punch-bars to position the transmitting elements.

17. In a composing-machinesuch as described provided with a series of notched or recessed punch-bars and a measuring mechanism including a series of control elements whose actuating devices are arranged in se- 1 ries between oppositeguiding-surfaces and in combination therewith a coupling element carrying a series of transmitting members each equipped with means for entering the notch in a punch-bar and engaging the actuseribed provided at one end with an offset or projectioiifor entering the recess in apunchbar and with an open side bearing at the opposite end to receive the end of a stop-baractuating lever.

1.9. A transmitting-bar for the coupling unit of a composing-machine such as described provided at one end with an open side bearing to receive the stop-bar-actuatreceive one of the stop-bar levers, and means at-iiig deviceof a control element. said coup for gaging and guiding said coupling unit, to ling element being provided with bearings effect engagement and disengagement of the for said guiding-surfact s and with gaging detransmitting elements and stop-bar levers. vices registering with the punch-bars.

12. In a composing-machine such as de- 18. A transmitting-bar for the coupling scribed, the combination with the frame of unit of a. composing-machine such as dea series of, stop-bars and actuating devices ing lever and at the other end with an offset 5 therefor, and in combination therewith, a or projectionextended laterally to enter the plurality of transmitting-bars interposed benotches in two or more punch-bars. tween the punch-bars and stop-bar-actuat- 20. A detachable coupling unit for con-v ing devices, each of said transmitting-bars necting a plurality of designating punch-barsengaging one or more punch-bars and the and a series of adme asuring devices in a comme actuating device of a single stop-bar. posing-machine such as described the same 14. In a composing-machine such as decomprising a series of transmitting-bars supscribed the combination with a plurality of ported in parallel relation at opposite ends designating punch-bars of a coupling unit between guides on a frame, each transmitequippedv with a plurality of transmittingting-bar provided at opposite ends with one 10 5 bars the latter provided With oflsets or promember of a separable connection for the jections adapted to enter notches in the designating and adineasuring devices, and punch-bars, whereby by a lateral movement the frame provided with projections for enof said couplin unit the transmitting-bars tering between the punch-bars to gage the may be coupled with or disconnected from position of the transmitting-bars. no the punch-bars. 21. A coupling unit for the designating 15. In a composing-machine such as depunch-bars and series of admeasuring described the combination with the series of vices of a composing-machine such as denotched or recessed punch-bars of a detach.- scribed the same comprising a frame and a able coupling unit for connecting the punchplurality of transmitting-bars supported in bars with the controlling elements of the liiieparallel relation at opposite ends in guides measuring devices .provided with a plurality and provided with offsets or projections for of transmitting-bars each equipped with an entering recesses in the punch-bars, said offoffset, or projection for entering a notch or sets or projections being of various widths, to recess in a punch-bar and with means for opengage one or more punch-bars. [2O crating a control element, the offset or pro- 22. A-detachable coupling unit for the jection on one or more of said transmitting designating punch-bars. and admeasuringbars being extended laterally to engage a stops of a composing-machine such as'deplurality of punch-bars thereby coupling the scribed the same comprising a series of translatter with a single stop-bar. mitting-bars mounted in a frame with their 12 16. In a composing-machine such as deopposite ends supported in parallel relation scribed provided with a plurality of designat- .in guides, a part of said transmitting-bars ing punch-bars and a measuring mechanism being equipped with offsets or projections including a series of control elements and in extending longitudinally thereof and of a combination therewith a detachable coupling width or thickness approximating that of the bar, while one or more of said transmittingbars is equipped with a shorter offset or project ion extending laterally of its bar the narrower oflsets coupling with individual punchbars, and the wider ones with two or more punch-bars.

23. In a composing-machine,such as described the combination of the following ele ments, to wit; a series or punchbars provided with opposite engaging surfaces; a series of actuating devices for the admeasuring elements and a coupling unit detachably interposed between the punch-barsand admeasuring-actuating devices, said unit comprising a plurality of transmitting bars mounted in guides upon a removable frame,

' certain of said transmitting-bars bearing connecting members adapted to enter between the engaging surfaces ofindividual punch sioning punch-bars and a series of admeasuring devices and in combination therewith a detachable coupling unit for connect ng the punch-bars singly or in multiple with different members of the admeasuring devices, the same comprising a plurality of transm ttingbars ided and sup 'orted in a frame and provi ed with separa le connections for the punch-bars and admeasurini devices, the connections for single punc -'bars being formed by transmitting-bars with narrow projections fitting between shoulders on the punch-bar while the connections for multiple punch-bars are formed by transmitting-bars with wider projections and of a length less than the interval between the shoulders on crate separately and at the same time register its 'value.

Witnesses:

MORTIMER A. JoNEs, JOSEPH B. CHURCH.

the punch-bars, to permit the latter to op- 

